One-quarter to one-third of all arable land on Earth has been taken out of production due to soil degradation. Locations like Syria and Libya [...]

Compaction limits root growth, soil porosity, water movement and water holding capacity, and causes water ponding. And everyone knows that soybeans don’t like wet [...]

Improving soil health is in vogue and many conferences have been held and stories written on soil health and how to achieve it. Of [...]

Applying fertilizer is the conventional practice in production agriculture. Growers are using combinations of natural nutrient cycling (soil biology, microbial interactions) and synthetic/chemical fertilizers [...]

Soil tests indicate large amounts of exchangeable calcium in the soil, but what’s important is how much soluble calcium is present. You can ask [...]

Calcium is often an overlooked nutrient in crop production because soil tests report large amounts of this extractable cation. This is the first in [...]

An attorney from Virginia called recently to discuss whether soybeans can or can’t grow in hydric soils. He is representing a client in Virginia [...]

Is soil health driving any of your on-farm decisions? Powering up the soil is like supercharging an engine. There are lots of things you [...]

Original article posted on C.O.R.N. Newsletter. Saturated soils after soybean planting can cause uneven emergence and stand reductions of varying extent depending on the [...]